Noburô Ôfuji Movies

In order to win the hand of a princess, a man must defeat an evil dragon and claim its treasured magic stone. Upon his return, Baghdad has been...

In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer...

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.

In front of a girl with the traditional Japanese hairstyle, a small man on a desk says, "women descended from tobacco." The girl laughs at him and...

A black cat sings and dances, animated using cut-outs.

A re-edited, feature length compilation of the two parts of Ôfuji's The Great Sage Shakyamuni Buddha - the culmination of Noburô...

Very short animated film from Japan, using cut-outs in the style of Lotte Reiniger.

Created by Noburo Ofuji, who had been cartoon making since the 1920s, often with decorative paper cutouts. The character animation looks like it was...

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.

A man in love with a noble lady tries to get close to her with the help of cats.

Film about a ghost ship. There is no dialogue, just music and a choir.

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.

An early color animation which uses the color to help tell the story. Three butterflies save a bird that falls out of it's nest during a rainstorm....

Chaos in the wild as fires break out and thread from a spider is the savior.

A short Japanese animation film from 1934.

A whale swallows women and men.

The mischievous Chinkoroheibei visits the underwater realm of the fish king where he tries to steal the king's treasure box.